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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

It all began with a strange email

861

2

The Silencing of Maya

774

3

Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles

559

4

I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.

492

5

Civ II game a decade old

460

6

How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

446

7

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'

399

8

MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge

368

9

PointerPointer: points to your cursor

367

10

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds

365

Top Ask HN

1

How do you learn to develop exploits?

163

2

who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?

108

3

Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1 1$

73

4

Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

34

5

Ask HN:What valuable company is no one building?

24

6

Be a hero, join Project Maya

21

7

Python as a Trading Platform

20

8

Shouldn't gTLDs be non-generic?

19

9

Feedback on startup, Fol.io

19

10

Why do you disable JavaScript?

19

Top Show HN

1

Easel, web design in the browser

337

2

A different kind of coloring book for kids (Android). Simple and clean.

89

3

The most beautiful places on earth

79

4

I'm releasing. 6months, 1dev. Looking for beta users

71

5

WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterday's self.

71

6

Prepare your Income Tax Return with a Form-16 upload

53

7

Your online WYSIWYG editor is broken

50

8

Ruby on Rails Bootstraping

49

9

Tell us your best registered domain names that no one knows about

36

10

Node.js library for flexible photo storage by Chute

28

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge

368

2

9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians

337

3

DragonBox: Algebra beats Angry birds

285

4

Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internets reaction

249

5

A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison

237

6

Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other

222

7

Apple's "benign dictatorship" of the App Store leaves users, devs in the dark.

119

8

Valve's Source engine to power upcoming animated film

96

9

"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in iOS 6"

75

10

Kippt (YC S12) Launches Bookmarking App To Become The GitHub For Links

73

News [?]

1

How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

446

2

Why Smart People Are Stupid

295

3

How Depressives Surf the Web

217

4

Zero-day Exploit Price List

206

5

Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots

194

6

Voyager 1 this close to leaving solar system

185

7

Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology Prize

172

8

Linus Torvalds: Linux succeed thanks to selfishness and trust

166

9

Sen. Paul proposes bill protecting Americans from drone surveillance

132

10

How Apple Store Seduces You With the Tilt of Its Laptops

130

Scientific publications [?]

1

Research paper: Interstellar flight is at least 200 years away

29

2

Using Go to implement optimistic parallel simulations [pdf]

5

3

Google now understands what youre looking for

4

4

AirBurr MAV Can Now Self-Right, Is Utterly Unstoppable

3

5

Einstein was right, neutrino researchers admit

2

6

New Investment Firm Has $25 Million to Fund Robotics Startups

2

7

Giant 'Tropical' Methane Lake Found on Saturn Moon Titan

2

8

First authorized translation of 1970 essay identifying "uncanny valley" problem

2

9

Textured surface may boost power output of thin silicon solar cells

1

10

Robotic Motion Control Enables Breathtaking High-Speed Video

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

LWN debates whether using GPL software on missiles counts as distribution

115

2

Introducing SPDY

86

3

Exploring and Dynamically Patching Django/Python Using GDB

76

4

Memshrink's 1st birthday

52

5

Mozilla and the National Science Foundation launch open innovation challenge

28

6

Brian Krebs talks to Thomas Ptacek about safe password storage.

9

7

Experience more with expanded Tweets

5

8

Teaching the Security Mindset

5

9

Apple Introduces StoreKit for In-App Purchases

5

10

Apple Announces StoreKit for In-App Purchases

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis

151

2

Help EFF Find Out How Your Local Police Agency is Using Drones

47

3

The Defensive Patent License and Other Ways to Beat the Patent System

39

4

Internet Archive Sues to Stop New Washington State Law

32

5

Apple now requires user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access private data

32

6

Functioning Apple 1 Sells for $375,000 at Sotheby's Auction

31

7

Tim Cook confirms updated Mac Pro coming in 2013

18

8

New Features in iOS 6 Receive Spotty Support from Older Devices

12

9

How the Retina Display MacBook Pro Handles Scaling

3

10

Windows 8 On The Retina Display Macbook Pro

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple iOS6 Preview

143

2

Apple quietly announces new Mac Pros

41

3

AWS Support Expands Free Tier, Adds New Features, Lowers Prices

30

4

New Macbook Pro

14

5

New 12-core Mac Pro, starting at $3799

11

6

An Application Security Reading List

8

7

The new iOS6 Maps

3

8

The New MacBook Pro: specs

2

9

Amazon releases Cloud Player for iPhone, iPod touch

2

10

AWS trusted advisor

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Anti-Piracy Patent Aims to Stop Students from Sharing Textbooks

119

2

How Long Before VPNs Become Illegal?

101

3

Get Patrick's laptop

43

4

U.S. Govt. Equates Megaupload to Bank Robbers

12

5

Comcast Protests Shake Down of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates

12

6

Comedy Copyright Battle Raises Seriously Funny Issues

7

7

Patent to prevent students from sharing books

6

8

Does torture matter if they won't remember it?

4

9

The advanced technology behind Colombian drug cartels [2002]

2

10

Court Issues New Blocking Order Against The Pirate Bay

2

Science News [?]

1

Mysterious electrical bursts warn of material collapse

64

2

Biologists grow human-eye precursor from stem cells

54

3

Criminalising drugs is harming medical research

6

4

Computer model successfully predicts drug side effects

5

5

DNA sequencing company certifies politician as free of 'Gypsy or Jew' genes

4

6

Antibody cocktail cures monkeys of Ebola

4

7

Communicating with people in permanent vegetative states (The mind reader)

3

8

Augmented reality glasses look a step ahead of Google

2

9

Criminalising drugs is harming medical research

2

10

Roulette beater spills physics behind victory

2

Social [?]

1

Civ II game a decade old

460

2

Sebastian Thrun AMA on reddit

170

3

A Redditor's description of Hacker News

42

4

Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

33

5

Bret Taylor Is Leaving Facebook

5

6

Pinboard is offering a free account for any one who cracks this password

5

7

DHH condemns clientside rendering

5

8

Keynote PyCon 2012: Paul Graham, Y Combinator [video]

4

9

Michael Lewis' Princeton commencement: Lucky

4

10

Google Tech Talk: Fast-paced introduction to Haskell

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

My thoughts on MessagePack

125

2

C10K 2012: Erlang Wins, Go a close second. Java, Haskell, Node & Python fail

123

3

Linux users: watch out for last-gen Intel Atom

117

4

G-WAN Captcha Decode

79

5

WebSocket benchmarks

65

6

Shown HN: Open Source Ticket Desk app

39

7

Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite

38

8

Grocer - New Gem for Sending Apple Push Notifications in Ruby

36

9

Thumbnail extraction on App Engine

9

10

A PHP syntax highlighting engine that rivals any full blown editor

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

Betteridge's Law of Headlines

173

2

Sailing faster than the wind

6

3

Uniform Invoice lottery (increased collected taxes by 75%)

3

4

Biology has a term called "in silico"; means 'contained in digital format'

2

5

Skill testing question requirement for lotteries in Canada

1

6

Things you didn't know: At one time, America had an emperor

1

7

List of Wikipedians (excludes bots) by number of edits

1

8

1

9

Kaguya was a mouse that had two parents of the same sex

1

10

Tim Gowers, Fields medal winner, knighted

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is there a simple compiler for a simple language? (StackOverflow)

7

2

Ide - vim Tutorials - Stack Overflow

6

3

Ruby on Rails with RSpec: testing behavior instead of implementation?

3

4

Hidden Features of HTML

3

5

Lazy evaluation in a haskell infinite list

2

6

Git and Mercurial - Compare and Contrast

2

7

How do you get PyPy, Django and PostgreSQL to work together?

2

8

Using bcrypt with PHP (StackOverflow)

2

9

How can a time function exist in functional programming?

2

10

Is Big O(logn) log base e?

2

Substack [?]